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Chumby may be a funny name for a company, but as a product, we think it has the potential to bring a lot of great content to new people (and places). If you haven’t heard of Chumby yet, well, that’s not surprising -- it hasn’t been around for very long, and has largely been in the experimental stages until recently.

So what exactly is a Chumby? It’s both a platform - a way to build portable web site features called “widgets” - and a product : a cute little alarm-clock-shaped device that has an iPhone-esque touch screen. PBS Engage is proud to have recently released the first Chumby widget for PBS a couple of weeks ago (many thanks to PBS developer Shawn Rider for helping us get started), featuring headlines from the Inside PBS blog.

Even though Chumby is relatively new, there are already hundreds of Chumby widgets out there, -- everything from The Daily Puppy, to New York Times headlines, to David Letterman’s nightly Top 10 List .

Now that we’ve put our very first widget on the Chumby, we’re trying to decide what to build next. We’re told that in the near future, you may be able to access Chumby widgets through other devices, like TVs and alarm clocks. What Chumby widgets do you think would be most useful?

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